Acronis delivers a complete, easy and safe data protection
solution, now with ability to restore full system backups to cloud
infrastructure
San Francisco, CA - September 18, 2014 - Acronis, the global leader in new
generation data protection, today announced the acquisition of
nScaled, a San Francisco-based
provider of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service. Customers currently
using Acronis Backup-as-a-Service solution will get a capability to
restore their systems to the cloud in case of disasters, and
quickly restore operations if replacement hardware is not
available. The extensive network of existing Acronis partners will
make the complete cloud backup and disaster recovery solution
available to all customers in the world, significantly increasing
the geography for nScaled technology.
Acronis, as a leading data protection provider, offers a wide
variety of backup solutions for individual users and organizations
of various sizes, as well as solutions for secure mobile file
access and sharing. Acronis' technologies also enable service
providers to deliver online backup and data storage to their
customers using the Acronis Hosted Backup-as-a-Service solution.
The acquisition of nScaled completes the Acronis cloud backup
offering with a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution. As
a result, a single source for backup and disaster recovery
protection for any environment will be available to existing and
new customers around the world.
Serg Bell, CEO and co-founder of Acronis, explained, "To protect
their data, customers need a reliable backup technology, storage
and infrastructure to restore systems in case of a disaster.
Acronis has delivered an advanced backup solution for years with
full system backup, and the ability to restore to any hardware.
Then we added Acronis Backup-as-a-Service to provide cloud storage
for backup data. With the addition of nScaled technology, we
provide a capability to restore to the cloud, and customers can
restore their operations without waiting for replacement hardware
to restore on-premises. Now, Acronis provides the most complete,
easy and safe cloud backup solution for any infrastructure and any
environment".
nScaled, ranked as a leading DRaaS vendor
by Forrester Research, provides a complete data virtualization
and protection solution for both local and remote sites. The
solution has the ability to fail over and run in the cloud and the
ability to recover servers in a matter of minutes to ensure
business continuity. nScaled's product offers centrally managed
monitoring and analyzing capabilities for disaster recovery
readiness testing. Founded in 2009, the company now has hundreds of
customers in North America and the UK. nScaled manages petabytes of
storage and several thousand servers in a global network of
geographically distributed Cloud data centers based in Dallas,
Ashburn and London. nScaled's solutions are also viable as an
on-premises appliance, managed as one seamless infrastructure with
Cloud data centers.
"Businesses have become ever more dependent upon data, and their
operations can no longer afford downtime. Ensuring the
availability and reliability of IT services is critical to
supporting customers and internal users," said Bradley Kolb, CEO of
nScaled. "As part of the Acronis team, nScaled will have access to
even more resources globally to further evolve our disaster
recovery services, delivering enhanced protection of our customers'
IT infrastructure, applications and data."
Products developed by the nScaled team will leverage the
advanced functionality of the Acronis AnyData Engine technology
that enables customers to capture, store, recover, control, and
access any data across any environment and to any storage device,
providing an even better data protection service to end customers.
The complete cloud backup solution will be available as a service
from service providers, Acronis Cloud or on-premises solution for
private datacenters to customers of any size. Hundreds of thousands
of existing Acronis users will enjoy the capability to restore
their systems to the cloud, avoiding costly downtime. Acronis
partners will be able to offer a complete hosted backup and
disaster recovery solutions to their customers.
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.